Belknap v. Platter’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “He [the judgment debtor] has thus obtained a community judgment, and if the wife is now entitled to object to an examination of her husband, in proceedings supplemental to the execution, instituted to subject the community property to the payment of such judgment, there is no good reason why the husband might not successfully object to her examination in the same proceedings. Neither party could then, upon such an examination, be required to disclose property fraudulently concealed by him or her. . . . When the rule as to the competency or incompetency of the husband and wife as witnesses was fixed by our statute, the legislature certainly did not intend any such result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seventh Elect Church in Israel v. Rogers

2. “expressly provides that a judgment debtor may be required to appear in court and answer concerning property which he unjustly refuses to apply towards the satisfaction of the judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seventh Elect Church in Israel v. Rogers

3. “would not be in the position of one refusing to testify in a cause pending against her husband, but in that of one impeding the execution of a judgment already obtained.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seventh Elect Church in Israel v. Rogers